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finding a great deal of profit and advantage in tte 
knowledge of the Tongnes j but on the contra#y 
they are guilty of many hainous vices ; for > 
It They are very cruel and unnatural, fo that 
the very Emperours themfelves as foon as they 
have the power in their hands, they put all their 
Brethren to death, nor have they any regard or 
refpeft for any of their Conatbints^ oftentimes ta- 
king them Captive; they ufe their Enemies like 
Bealls, which they fell, or elfe put them to druel 
torments , nay oftentimes they will put out their 
eyes, others they will pull their skin off, andfeve- 
ral other wayes of cruelty they hav^ among them, 
that they exercife upcm their Enemies .* and al- 
though they give a great deal of honour and reve- 
rence to their Kings while they are alive, yet af- 
ter they are once dead, they then care 'not what 
they do } they will mutiny, rob his Treafury ; but 
this will be too tedious a bufinefs to follow any fur- 
ther, it being but a digrelfion, I lhall fay but a 
little more of it. 
5, As Tygers cannot endure the found of Drams^ 
thus the I tirks banilh from them all good Arts 
vciAScteHces-, Rhetoricky Phyfick^ LlmHi«gyh\xt 
efpecially Aiufick^-^ becaufe they know that they 
are apt to ufe it immoderately. Finally, although 
Tygers are fo fierce and cruel, vet have been, and 
may be tamed ; thus the THr\ts , were they go- 
verned as they fliould be, would foon be a more 
civilized people • as to the difficulty that there is in 
the taking of their young ones, ErnfmHs applyetb 
it to niggardly covetous men • for as Huntfmen 
, think 
